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Crime news including the latest on murder cases, the hunt for serial killers, triads, court cases and trials, shootings, burglary, armed robbery and corruption.
Automatic right to screens in Hong Kong courts that spare complainants from having to face the accused would encourage victims of crime to come forward, and enhance justice.
While authorities should promote safe internet practices for the young and vulnerable, parents can strengthen the first line of defence by staying vigilant about their children’s online activities.
Care, detailed legislation and regulation are required when employing technology that may prove effective in catching criminals.
Social media platforms must stay abreast of sinister technology developments that have ensnared Hong Kong leader John Lee and pop star Taylor Swift, among others.
Concern over donations to a decades-old city Christian NGO reveals the need for greater transparency from such groups.
- Oo Saw Kee, 39, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined for intentionally inflicting serious injury on the 33-year-old victim, A. Solairaj
- The judge called her actions against a disabled person – which he said were completely unprovoked – ‘cruel and inhumane’
Pan apologised to a courtroom packed with family and friends of victim Kevin Jiang, saying he ‘fully accepted’ his punishment.
David Pecker testified that the National Enquirer paid for stories of Trump’s sexual misbehaviour but never published them, a practice known as ‘catch and kill’.
The man went on a cat-killing spree between December 2022 and September 2023 due to a deep hatred of the animal that he began harbouring after other cats scratched his car.
Spanish police have sent a sample of the soil embedded in the soles of the Nike shoes for a lab analysis to determine if it matches the soil found on the body of Audrey Fang.
M Krishnan, 40, had a ‘propensity for abusing his domestic partners’, the court heard. He punched and kicked the victim to death after learning about her relationships with other men.
The 40-year-old proved he has auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), a rare condition whereby the body produces alcohol, but no symptoms of intoxication.
New York prosecutors portrayed US$130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels as a criminal effort to deceive voters when Trump was facing other accusations of crude sexual behaviour.
Suspected cocaine, with an estimated street value of HK$15 million, found by hikers at Nam She Wan near shoreline on Sunday.
Three German nationals were arrested and two men in Britain were charged.
Three Hongkongers, eight Thai women and 40 mainland Chinese residents arrested after series of police raids over two weeks.
Six male defendants plead not guilty to charge of bombing, while one female suspect denies role in providing or collecting property to commit terrorist acts.
Ecuador’s fledgling president got a resounding victory in a referendum that he touted as a way to crack down on criminal gangs behind a spiralling wave of violence.
Ecuador’s prisons agency did not give more details on the death of the prison director. Ecuadorans were voting in a referendum on proposed measures to fight surge in gang-related crime.
Scammers posed as staff members and told renovation and maintenance firms they represented schools that needed work done.
The killings have stunned many Australians, who are largely unaccustomed to such violent crime: ‘I feel like this has burst Australia’s bubble a bit’.
At least 39 dogs and two cats found after police and SPCA raid on flat in Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei
Islamist bombers hit three churches and three hotels in 2019, killing more than 279 people, but grieving families say they are still awaiting justice.
Police say they were alerted by reports about man suspected of luring young women to his flat since 2017.
Maxwell Azzarello was seen throwing pamphlets opposite the courthouse before dousing himself in an unspecified liquid.
Superintendent Harbour Chan found guilty of two counts of fraud in relation to two mortgage applications made involving luxury house and flat.
The Thai towns of the notorious Golden Triangle are taking advantage of their opium-producing history with attractions centred on the drug and military leaders who fought over it.
Stop-and-search in Cheung Sha Wan leads customs officers to haul of suspected ketamine and crack cocaine, as well as drug packaging tools.
A Hong Kong truck driver was arrested for smuggling firearms into China when he entered Shenzhen in 2001, and put on trial despite the guns being fake. Eight months later he was still awaiting a verdict.
A Singaporean man was arrested in connection with the death of Audrey Fang, who has been missing since April 9.
Andrew Malkinson, 58, had his conviction quashed last July by appeal court after DNA evidence linked another suspect to the rape. Malkinson said that while he felt vindicated, apology is ‘too little too late’.
Pan’s shocking criminal case that took place over a decade ago has been thrown back into the spotlight in the form of a Netflix documentary, What Jennifer Did, released on April 10
Police charged Peter Murrell with embezzlement of funds from Sturgeon’s pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP), the BBC and other media reported on Thursday.
Judges ruled that Yameen’s 2022 trial on corruption and money-laundering charges during tenure of a pro-Indian government was unfair, ordered a retrial.
